sidestroke

How To Use sidestroke In A Sentence

• A range of events featuring freestyle, butterfly, sidestroke, backstroke and medley races saw the kids battle for supremacy as to who would be the king and queen of the pool in their age groups and for their swimming club.
• Mostly I did the sidestroke and froggy-backstroke Bardiac, queen of not-quite-real swimming strokes, and a bit of breaststroke. Archive 2009-06-01
• Use sidestrokes and backstrokes to work really hard without having to focus too hard on your breathing.
• I started on my stomach, but turned to a sidestroke, then a backstroke to get to the island.
• I drew her down and we went to work sidestroke-like, while she nibbled and bit at my ears and chin and lips, gasping and shuddering like the expert trollop she was; I remember thinking, as she gave her final practised heave and sob, Susie was right: with another nineteen like this we'll be able to buy California after a year or two; maybe I'll stay about for a while. Isabelle
• The chill was a shock, but what was more of a shock was how far I quickly drifted after only a few sidestrokes. The Grace to Race
• But the scissor kick on my sidestroke took a bit of feeling out. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
• Although it's out of fashion, I find sidestroke is by far the best for sea swimming – there's no putting your head in the water, so breathing and vision are easy: useful, as Byron would not have had goggles. Notes & queries: The universe? It's a mesh knitted by the flying spaghetti monster • Bottom line on skirting boards • Byron's swimming style
• He left a slick red smear on the hardwood floor as he crawled sidestroke toward the bathroom. VAPOR TRAIL
• It wasn't that I didn't have the strength, it was that I never swam sidestroke enough for it to be natural. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway